between 1650 B.C. and 1350 B.C.
hematite
20 x 10 mm
Morgan Seal 965
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Seal 965 also has a god carrying an ax and an inscription containing the name of Adad. Perhaps here again the god with the ax is a weather god, though he is winged and differently attired.. Porada, CANES, p. 129
Summary:
God with mace before winged deity holding ax -- Suppliant goddess -- In field: bird; Egyptian life sign -- Inscription.
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